Dr. Mehmet Parlak is a principal research scientist at the Faculty of Engineering, UC Louvain with a research focus on design and development of joint communication and radar transceivers. He also focuses on machine learning assisted, sub-terahertz integrated beamforming circuits and systems on silicon for cognitive Radar and 6G applications within the scope of smart and autonomous applications. Dr. Parlak received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 2005, the M.S. and PhD. degrees in 2009 and 2012 in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego, CA and MBA degree at Paul Merage Business School at University of California, Irvine with a focus in strategy management in 2019.

Prior to and after completing his PhD, he participated in research and development as a RFIC design scientist at many leading corporations such as Siemens Corporation in Munich, Germany, Panasonic Corporation, America in San Jose, CA and Broadcom Corporation (Avago) in Irvine, CA, USA. He held fellowships and honors throughout his education and career;  TU Munich Graduate Research Fellowship, UC San Diego Graduate Research Fellow, UC Irvine MBA Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Gordon Engineering Leadership, UC San Diego Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards, Intel Student Scholarship to name a few.